Anybody who’s done any sort of search engine optimization will get a kick out of this (back story).
Month: October 2007
Did You Complete “The Gnome Achievement?”
I don’t play computer games much, and I certainly haven’t played Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Apparently there are are achievements you have to meet during the game, but there is one hidden achievement involving a little garden gnome that you can pick up in the beginning of the game: To send the little gnome to space. Which basically means you need to carry it with you the entire game and do some fancy work to hold on to it and not lose it or blow it up. Read up here for an entertaining gnome adventure with hilarious screen shots.
Cable Company Not Being Helpful?
Then walk in to their office with a hammer and start bashing things, like this woman did to Comcast.
“I smashed a keyboard, knocked over a monitor … and I went to hit the telephone,” Mona said. “I figured, ‘Hey my telephone is screwed up, so is yours.’ “
Can’t say that I haven’t thought of doing the same thing with other utility companies.
Link via Consumerist.
Flickr Users Will Appreciate This
If you’ve ever just randomly glanced at the photos that pop up as popular on Flickr (I usually get to them via popurls), you’ll appreciate all the hilarious in-jokes on this Flickr image.
Link via Waxy.
We Could Only Be So Lucky
But we’ll never see this on Ann Coulter’s site:
Image via Digg. I don’t know if this was a legit hack (apparently it’s being discussed on Coulter’s forums, but that would require me to actually go on her forums) or just a photoshop job, I don’t really care — it made me laugh.
Some People Have Far Too Much Time On Their Hands
A bunch of climbers took a portable hot tub up to the top of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, and went for a swim — with tons of crazy pictures.
Asinine Lawsuit For The Day
A one-year old managed to wander and fall into a family pool. He was pulled out by his mom and he was resuscitated by rescue workers. The boy suffered severe brain damage and cannot walk, talk or even swallow. We won’t get into why the parents or grandparents weren’t watching the little boy around the pool, but to make things worse, one of the rescuers is suing alleging that the family “left a puddle of water on the floor that afternoon, causing her to slip and fall.”
How I Feel About Halloween
Everybody knows my feelings about Halloween, and I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one.
Random Notes
Couple random notes:
- Going to Eugene tomorrow to watch the Duck game. It’s homecoming, so I’m going to try to hit up the Journalism/Emerald alumni tent for lunch. Come find me if you’ll be there (I’ll hit the tent at halftime).
- Did anybody go to the Fall Festival here in Bend this last weekend? Did anybody see that kid’s playhouse they were raffling off? That’ll be in our backyard in a month or so. My dad, who never enters to win anything (but always wins when he does) managed to win this, and is giving it to my daughters. Apparently the guy that builds these things usually sells them for about $1500, so I’m totally floored (as is my oldest daughter) that we’re getting the thing (and very grateful)
The problem is that to get this 7×7′ hand-built playhouse into my backyard, I have to move all my firewood out from next to my house (all 4+ cords of it) so this guy can get his trailer back there so we don’t have to roll the thing on pipes or something.